"Smart History" for Photoshop

What about having something like a "Smart History" for Photoshop?
When using filters or adjustment layers I often disable/enable them to see the effect, when I do that I often do it quite often to get a sense for the changes- this clogs the history in no time.
If PS would detect that back and forth it could just show the latest two steps in the history (enable/disable) so one can still keep track of all the other adjustments made by other tools.
Is this something that would be considered for future versions?
PS: This could be integrated in the same way in Lightroom aswell.

What are you doing to toggle something that gets get recorder in the history palette? Ctr+Z Ctrl+Z does not nor does turning on and off a layers visibility even Alt+Click Visibility toggle does not add history states. Disabling and enabling Layer Mask does add history states. Backing up in histort could also remove all disable enable layer mask toggleing steps. Backup and move on.
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